UN adds Lankan sites

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UNESCO has added Sri Lanka's Central Highlands comprising the Peak Wilderness Protected Area, the Horton Plains National Park and the Knuckles Conservation Forest to the World Heritage List.

UNESCO says the region is considered a super biodiversity hot spot noted for its range of flora and fauna, including several endangered species, including the western purple-faced langur, the Horton Plains slender loris and the Sri Lankan leopard.

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has been meeting in Brasilia, Brazil, this week to review candidates for inclusion on its heritage list and assess its List of World Heritage in Danger. (Daily Mirror online)

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Calistus Jayatilleke Sunday, 01 August 2010 06:06 AM

They should not also forget to incude the site where our hero WW staged the "farce" and especially the mobile toilet installed on the site!

Dinesh Sunday, 01 August 2010 11:00 AM

Its a great honour for us

J.Samarakoon Sunday, 01 August 2010 11:25 AM

somebody should take stern actions to avoid pollution these places by our so called visitors.

Mohammed Sunday, 01 August 2010 01:19 PM

Glad

citizen1 Monday, 02 August 2010 02:57 AM

Mobile toilet with Lemon puff supply.

MK Monday, 02 August 2010 07:38 AM

Aney Calistus. Please be a man of integrity, and learn how to rejoice in good and criticize the bad. What has happened above is a very good thing.

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